Fan Made Teaser Trailer For Scream 4

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A fan of the scream franchise has released a home made teaser trailer which our group found like a good example to get some ideas from. There is a ‘Scream 4’ to be released in 2010, and our group almost couldn’t tell that this wasn’t professionally made. As a matter of fact there are a lot of Youtube user comments asking when the film is set to release in cinemas.

‘Greenbeast101 (4 days ago) Marked as spam

when is it coming out’

The trailer can be found at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUbDTZEihKA

The beginning of the trailer is the first ring of a telephone, which is sharply followed by a shot of this telephone, with the camera zooming in on it.

The zooming in effect makes the viewer focus their concentration on the phone which quickly builds suspense.

‘Scream’ fans watching this will also notice that the girl in the photo is from a previous film.

Once the phone is taking up most of the screen a woman’s hand comes into the shot from the left and picks up the phone.

The screen then quickly fades to black and the voice of what sounds like an American teenage girl says ‘Hello’ timidly. She already sounds scared and nothing has happened, there is also an eerie sounding noise/music for the soundtrack.

The screen then shows some writing, and gives more hints away to the ‘Scream’ fans.

Notice the font is the same font in used in the previous films. The word ‘ENDING’ then fades to a red as if to resemble blood, but also it is used in the other ‘Scream’ films so fans should have figured out by now what that it is a trailer for a new ‘Scream’ film.

The screen then fades to a door, this makes the audience believe somebody or something is going to come through it, for people who have realised it’s a Scream movie they will be expecting ‘man in the mask’.

Then the more words come onto the screen and again the last word changes colour to red.

This refers to the last phrase, together it reads, ‘A story can not have an ending until the main character is killed’. This shows to everybody watching the trailer that it is for a sequel to something.

The screen then changes to a shot of the door again, and suddenly a hand slams on the window, making the audience of the trailer jump.

You can also hear the woman from earlier sounding scared and like she is struggling. This shows them that it is a horror film if they hadn’t already realised.

Next the screen again fades to black and finally reveals which film is being advertised.

The ‘A’ then changes colour to red and turns to ‘4’ to show that it is a new chapter in the franchise.

Then the screen goes to a closer shot of the door, and the traditional ‘Scream’ mask slowly appears on the other side.

The screen then shows a website where people can look up the film, this is a good device to create publicity and hype for the film.